MithraPride

Um....they /couldn't/ have gotten a visual last I recall. Shikigami weapon is (according to every site I've checked) supposed to spawn invisible, and only aggros on linking with other weapons in the area. @.@

Sugami wrote: No sh*t, you're in Japan the game is primarily aimed at the Japanese market.

Japaneese Market? AAFES is a company run by America. All the items and games are in english. Absolutely no profit goes to Japan, except maybe for being on thier land (Renting the building etc etc.) And even at that, thier on a Marine Corps base so im pretty sure their paying the Marine Corps for the expenses of renting out buildings on base. Why would funds go to japan?

But I feel ya, on not being able to get good games because of sh*tty advertisement. Hell I STILL haven't seen a SINGLE FRIGGIN COPY of FFXII yet over here. And none of my buddies have it either. And last I checked Sugami, you did get TOAU before I did. Everyone on this forum did I think. Remember my post

Kintrra wrote:Um....they /couldn't/ have gotten a visual last I recall. Shikigami weapon is (according to every site I've checked) supposed to spawn invisible, and only aggros on linking with other weapons in the area. @.@

That is correct! It aggro's magic, too.

And to Tsybil, they were all clustered near us... And it was literally a good 2min. before it popped that they all raced off. (of course the COR and I gave chase!!! We didn't care too much losing the claim since the SMN who needed the YYR had left already... But cheating makes me a miffed kitten regardless

Tianshii wrote:About 2min. before shiki popped, the other group there used flee/sneak and took off. I asked the COR with me, "pop?" He said no and re-checked wide scan. A min. later it did pop... My COR pal suggested they probably had a packet sniffer.

Just an FYI, but a packet sniffer won't show you the spawns. The only thing that would do that is a packet spoofer -- it would need to simulate sending a wide-scan request to the server (using the ID of someone in game and in the zone) and then interpret the results. There's currently nothing that will do this. The spawns (with loot) in the zone aren't automatically sent to the client in FFXI the way the were in EQ. You can't have a sniffer that shows you all the critters on a 2nd comp along with all the loot each one will drop.

Sounds to me like they just pulled it the way I pull Shikigami. You get an absolutely precise Time-of-Death (down to the second). Then you go back to the zone 21H later. At about 21H-60s, you flee around the entire zone, pulling a huge train behind you. This pops shiki. You run the train past your friends, they grab shiki and you zone out. Shiki has no jitter at all on his respawn. It's exactly 21H.

BTW, there are all kinds of better ways to grab Shiki. I just use flee 'cuz I play THF. The lullaby method works even better if you have enough brd friends.

Okay I'm sure there's lots of JP copies being sold where you are, not my fault you can't use them. You didn't specify

Interesting note, Okuza. I'll tell my friend that.
Thinking about what you said... odd thing still is, they had been clustered with us. Took off 2min before pop, nabbed shiki and while trying to pull it back to where we had all been originally gathered, they aggro'd several other weapons x.x. Not aggro weapons to aggro shiki.
Also, shiki doesn't always 100% pop right @ ToD. Usually within 5/10min tops. Just wanted to make mention of that as well
I spose my friends wide scan could have hic-upped but... the time frame seemed weird to both of us.

Usually, when I can, I take a RNG to shiki for claim. Seem to have the best luck with them shooting him in the @$$ Then the rest of the team handling adds/ pwning shiki.
I haven't tried the brd lullaby way, yet... I have a lot of RDM friends and maybe 1 BRD friend u.u;;